Who Wants To Be A Millionaire contestant Rosie lost a massive amount of money after asking the audience a question that all boxing fans will know.
I think that it’s fair to say that sports fans across the world are always waiting for a sport-related question to show up when watching their favourite quiz shows.
It’s only natural that fans often like to brag that they know almost everything there is to know about their favourite sport, be it the lineups of a match several decades ago or the names of every single UFC champion.
However, for many members of the public, a sports question is their worst nightmare and one that they may require external help to get past.
And that was exactly the case for one contestant on Jeremy Clarkson’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but it didn’t exactly work out well for her.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is one of the biggest quiz shows on TV. (Image: Christopher Willard/Disney via Getty Images)
In a March 2025 episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, contestant Rosie Hurst managed to get through the first eight questions without a hitch and, crucially, without using a lifeline.
However, when faced a £16,000 question about boxing weight classes, Rosie decided it was finally time to use up one of her four precious lifelines, relying on the audience to help her with the question.
The question asked Rosie to pick which of the following men’s weight divisions was the heaviest: bantamweight, middleweight, welterweight and flyweight.
Rosie correctly identified that both bantamweight and flyweight were lighter weight divisions, but couldn’t decide which of the other two was the heaviest.
After having the question repeated, the majority of the audience (63%) answered that welterweight was the heaviest, with 26% saying middleweight, 8% going for flyweight and just 3% saying bantamweight.
Following the audience, Rosie locked in welterweight as her final answer, only to be told by Clarkson that it was the wrong answer and instead middleweight.
“You useless imbeciles,” Clarkson told the audience.
Rosie’s wrong answer saw her miss out on the £16,000 on offer to answering the question correctly, and caused her prize from appearing on the quiz show to drop from £8,000 down to her safety net of £1,000.
Of the four, middleweights are the heaviest boxers, weighing 160 lb (72.6 kg; 11 st 6.0 lb), followed by welterweight 147 lb (66.7 kg; 10 st 7.0 lb), bantamweight 118 lb (53.5 kg; 8 st 6.0 lb) and finally, flyweight 112 lb (50.8 kg; 8 st 0 lb).
